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• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  came up with is like this: if you have a phone with a bunch of apps ... , but if you're in a frosh double, you have to vacate it for next year ... a word without using it in the definition, I can only gesture at it

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking! (fall 2025) highways, storks, and movies

  

  , some of which he shared with us during a class walk we took together in ... , this course is essentially a reading seminar—there are no assignments ... week is, after all, a ~10-hour ordeal. But I've been liking it a lot so

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 5, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  procrastination). What I’m trying to say in a haphazard way is that things will ... is my past avatar, a more accurate depiction of me when I wrote this ... math major. I had a clear life plan to start in the first semester

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Events

  A Typical Friday Afternoon on a Thursday Honoring the decades old (?) tradition of the East Campus Friday Afternoon Club (FAC)

  

  East Campus is unique for a wide variety of reasons. We build roller ... 's some food in there we could use. It's a stretch, but maybe there's hope ... . 5PM. Courtyard. The feast inside is waiting. It might be a bit

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  can do a UROP in HASS. Currently, UROP students are being actively ... 've have a number of friends who have UROPed in HASS, and all have had good ... interaction that is at the core of much true creativity -- and thus in the great

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Since I Been Gone Running and nice weather -- and no school

  

  the marathon in 2006. I have since learned that Phi Sig is about a mile ... , who is a more educated but less devout Kelly Clarkson fan than I am ... ), it has rained for 25 of the past 31 days. (And apparently it is a good

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  you have to do is submit a project and budget proposal in order to ... resource. Everyone at MIT is talented and driven. In a couple decades, they ... IAP (Independent Activities Period) is a really neat time at MIT

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  is heavily concentrated in two assignments (a small project and a final ... .33 - Research and Communication in Economics a sort of pre-thesis class, where we ... these classes is 6 units (compared to 12 units for a typical one

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

  see what its about! Disclaimers: it works best in chrome it is a ... mailing list about a really cool IAP internship opportunity offered in ... work the next day! Living Situation Stochastic Labs is actually a big

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  ! Summertime is a great time for you to take a class in something that you have ... came to MIT, it started way back in high school. So here are a few ... take care of yourself in a new environment without Mom and Dad around to

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  Thursday night, my friend told me "Hey Erick, tomorrow morning is Ask A VC ... Pad but in the shape of a sphere and it goes on top of your car". Towards ... . and you have to cover your costs. This is opposed to a software startup

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  think it's true. ----- Five days ago, I was tucked away in a lounge on ... me in terms of not traveling to NYC at all. That's saying a lot ... requested a conflict exam in a class where the professor didn't offer conflict

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Central Square Dance Party You can even play the videos and dance along to them. It'll be like you…

  

  packed, just in a different way. (Which is maybe perhaps why my blogging ... Cambridge was hosting a city-wide dance party in the street, and so we decided ... like you were there with us, here's a little bit of the evening: And in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  like this is from experience or anything… 3. Show your colors in the ... !). As did I. Communication is key! As you can tell, this isn’t a single ... to being a family comfortable with spontaneous hugging in only six days

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  uncertainties, we also keep a waitlist of students. Is the waitlist ranked? No ... letter). Additionally, I would recommend sending us a letter in mid ... round of waitlist admissions. It is a part of the admissions process. We

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  than in Boston, at the Coolidge Corner Theater, a lovely nonprofit ... was in town (and she is the one of the biggest Xena fans in all recorded ... is. But, uh, this is a lesson, prospective MIT students--never attempt

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How Do You Mic A Stripper? [by Harrison Bralower '11] It's a great question when you really think about it.

  

  year of high school. Theater is a wonderful experience in which you meet ... individuals—-to give life to words on a page. This is my experience from ... share? Post it in the comments and strike up a discussion! Who knows—

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  this in college while pursuing a degree in mechanical engineering. Greg ... -powered death bird: Nearby, a man in a lab coat was melting blocks of solid ... On Friday I flew out to California to visit my friend Greg. Greg is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  's the ceiling of Lobby 7. Lobby 7 is a beautiful space, with that vaulted ... just got a lovely writeup in Technology Review. When I started that draft, though, I didn't have a grasp of how important Hunt would be in my life

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  quads, a square dance club near stanford. in many senses it is the sister ... referring to free space in a schedule, like a buffer period. but there's a ... alyssa's estimate. there is no buffer in alyssa's schedule. bob says it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022